Works by versatile, prolific William Blake Richmond (1842-1921) for Venus & Anchises (1890 Walker Art Gall), William Morris (1880s NPG), Charity (1910, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Sq) plus a sumptuous example of aesthetic dress with Mrs Luke Ionides (1879, V&A)

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This NPG is so GORGEOUS but DANGEROUS Don't you want her 😍 Grab her now before anyone else!

https://t.co/rXnvdikcTw
https://t.co/jDv4Duh2t1

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略称「NPG」にしたらネポネポゲームだってかっこいいと思うんです。

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Won this baddass NPG from game night 😎 Cool asf. Good game good game!

Check collection: https://t.co/jFpeLjP3S1

$NEAR

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6 Mar 1616: d. Francis Beaumont playwright, student of Ben Jonson, close collaborator with John Fletcher. Buried in Abbey in May 1616. (NPG)

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2 Mar 1561: b. John Overall future bishop of at Hadleigh (NPG)

He would go on to question double predestination at the Hampton Court conference at the start of the reign of James I

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15 Feb 1628: After a clash with vessels Kenelm Digby lands at There he buys the freedom of 40-50 men in order to recrew his ships (NPG/British Museum)

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11 Feb 1558: the will of Gerlach Flicke is proved (National Galleries of Scotland / Royal Armouries at the Tower of London/ NPG)

Flicke is now probably best remembered for his Thomas Cranmer portrait.

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23 Jan 1606: 4 days before his execution Everard Digby, Gunpowder Plotter, writes a final letter to his children including Kenelm - below. Kenelm would be a privateer , duellist & much else as well as Henrietta Maria’s representative to the Papacy in the 1640s (NPG)

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19 Jan 1644: forces invade under the command of Alexander Leslie, Earl of (NPG)

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Birthday in the park: Valentine Bartholomew, 1799-1879, English flower painter......https://t.co/H1d3eeMNNF (Image: NPG)

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17 Jan 1517: b. Henry Grey, Duke of - father of Lady Jane Grey, the 'Nine Days Queen' (BM/NPG)

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5 Jan 1606: Wedding of Robert Devereux (aged 13) 3rd Earl to Frances Howard (aged 14) Doesn't work out... (NPG/BM)

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13 Dec 1627: Kenelm Digby receives letters of marque as a privateer He has big plans (NPG)

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3 Dec 1549: Reginald Pole leads the field in the first ballot of the papal conclave The bankers rate him as 95% likely to succeed, he may have written an acceptance speech. But, in the end, Julius III was the victor. (NPG) Had he won, he would have been 2nd English Pope

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'I paint myself constantly, that is to say whenever I want to make an experiment in method or colour, & I am not in the humour to make a design': self-portaits for this week's (1834, 1853, c.1860, 1879 & NPG) https://t.co/FcMLYFRpZV

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24 Nov 1633: the Baptism of James (II & VII) takes place at St. James' Palace (BM/NPG)

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